Carving fork



G. H. STREET Nov. 4 1924.

CARVING FORK 1 Filed Nov. 5, 19 23 Patented Nov. 4, 1924..

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GEORGE HENRY STREET, F SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND.

GARVING FORK.

Application filed November To all whom it may concern.

STREET, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Prior Grange, Sharrow Lane, Shefiield, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carving Forks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to carving forks and has for its object to provide a cheaper and more eflicient device of this nature than those at present constructed.

It has for a further object to provide a carving fork with the body drilled up to receive the end of the tang, the end of the tang being so formed that it constitutes the spring for the fork guard. As a further object the prongs of the fork may be cut out of sheet steel and welded to the body or the 2 body and prongs may be formed in one piece.

In the drawing, which shows a side elevation partly in section of a carving fork constructed according to the invention a are the prongs, coining one in front of the other, welded to or made in one with the body I). The body is drilled up to receive the upper end of the tang (Z and has a slot opening to the upper end of the bore, in which the guard c is pivotally mounted. The upper 3, 1923. Serial No. 672,540.

' end of the tang d is split as shown to form a Be it known that I, GEORGE HENRY spring tongue 6 toco-operate with the usual two position cam hump on the guard 0.

lVhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States of America is:

1. A carving fork comprising a body provided with prongs and also having a bore, a handle having a bore at one end thereof, a tang, one end of which is split to 40 form a spring tongue and contained in the bore in the body, the other end being contained in the bore in the handle, and a guard pivoted in a slot in the body opening into the bore and provided with a. two position earn hump cooperating with the spring tongue.

.2. A carving fork comprising a body having a bore therein, prongs cut from sheet steel and welded to the body, a handle having a bore at one end, a tang, one end of which is split to form a spring tongue and contained in the bore in the body, the other end being contained in the bore in the handle, a guard pivoted in a slot in the body opening into the bore and a two position cam hump on the guard cooperating with the spring tongue.

In witness whereof I afiix my signature.

GEORGE HENRY STREET. 

